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What was life like in the olden days?
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Just like in the olden days, Antioch had the coal mines and people worked there.
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Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 27 June 2024
Each vintage the back labels are different, and resemble traditional circus tickets and playbills, containing creative and humorous messages that harken to the olden days of wonder and spectacle.
—Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2024
New York has long loomed large in the traveller’s imagination, most notably in the olden, jet-setting days when getting there was half the fun.
—Nicholas D. Lowry, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
In the olden days, writers were taught to put the mark –30– at the bottom of a story to indicate the end.
—Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
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Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 27 June 2024
Each vintage the back labels are different, and resemble traditional circus tickets and playbills, containing creative and humorous messages that harken to the olden days of wonder and spectacle.
—Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2024
New York has long loomed large in the traveller’s imagination, most notably in the olden, jet-setting days when getting there was half the fun.
—Nicholas D. Lowry, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
In the olden days, writers were taught to put the mark –30– at the bottom of a story to indicate the end.
—Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
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“Olden.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/olden. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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olden
adjective
old·en
ˈōl-dən 
: of or relating to earlier days
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